From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to apply a list of regex replaces to multiple files?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abh2m6kb.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 091f39ab-89ac-438f-a878-464309c4a8f6@i18g2000prn.googlegroups.com
"michael.l" <michael.lommel@gmail.com> writes:
> I've browsed the messages here and have googled but don't see a clear
> solution yet. I have about 900 documents to which I need to apply a
> list of maybe 40 separate regex search and replaces. I would like to
> feed a list of the regex expressions and replacements to emacs and
> have it applied to a directory of the files. Any solutions? Keyboard
> macros don't seem like the right solution....
If all the files are in one directory, you could probably do this with
dired?
Tim
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 1:50 How to apply a list of regex replaces to multiple files? michael.l
2008-07-01 5:23 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-01 5:56 ` michael.l
2008-07-01 7:01 ` Tim X [this message]
2008-07-01 7:33 ` Phil Carmody
2008-07-01 8:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.14069.1214901523.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-07-01 15:09 ` michael.l
2008-07-01 17:39 ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-07-02 8:20 ` Tim X
2008-08-01 8:38 ` David Combs
2008-07-01 23:25 ` Xah
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